weathertight

English

Alternative forms

• weather-tight

Etymology

weather +‎ tight

Adjective

weathertight (comparative more weathertight, superlative most weathertight)

1. Sealed against the wind and rain.
   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,^[1]

     In one week, my house was made weather-tight, and thoroughly cleansed from top to bottom […]

   • 1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917, Part VI, lines 309-312, p. 215^[2]

     […] There’s a rubble-stone

     Unfit for the front o’ the building, stuff to stow

     In a gap behind and keep us weather-tight;

     There’s porphyry for the prominent place. Good lack!

   • 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 3, p. 35,

     Their brownstone still stands, and it is still snug and weathertight.

Synonyms

• weatherproof